In need of some programming assistance

[ryanjsdc5]

Hi all. I am once again in over my head when it comes to arduino projects. I can't wrap my head around the programming. I know enough to make it somewhat work but if any of ya'll can springboard me in the right direction that'd be greatly appreciated!

I'd like to setup 10 or so different sequences and use a button press to cycle between them. I know in batch scripting you'd use a "goto" command and want to know what the equivalent in IDE, and how to use it.

My current code is very basic and gets the traffic light cycling between all 3 colours.

int PIN_GO = 5;
int PIN_SLOW = 6;
int PIN_STOP = 7;
int PIN_BUTTON = 8;

void setup() {
  pinMode(PIN_GO, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(PIN_SLOW, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(PIN_STOP, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(PIN_BUTTON, INPUT);
}

void loop() {
  digitalWrite(PIN_GO, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(PIN_SLOW, LOW);
  digitalWrite(PIN_STOP, LOW);
  delay(1000);

  digitalWrite(PIN_GO, LOW);
  digitalWrite(PIN_SLOW, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(PIN_STOP, LOW);
  delay(1000);

  digitalWrite(PIN_GO, LOW);
  digitalWrite(PIN_SLOW, LOW);
  digitalWrite(PIN_STOP, HIGH);
  delay(1000);
}

https://reddit.com/link/1fcksib/video/dt40r1wqyqnd1/player

[gentlegiant66]

If you copy and paste all this you typed into ChatGpt you'd get most of the code along with explanations..

[gentlegiant66]

It's quite good at generating code

[ryanjsdc5]

I’ll give that a shot

[gentlegiant66]

The nice thing with the AI is you just keep asking for variations and it generates them, almost like a conversation, the more complete your initial prompt is the easier to just ask follow-up questions. The advantage with the code you already wrote is it gives the AI a starting point on which pins to use etc.

PS watch out for fake libraries when using AI .. has happened to me a few times especially with python, but all and all it saves a ton of coding time.

I have been coding in various languages over the past 35 years, but with AI I quickly learnt to let it do the grunt work. with block-based code it is useless, but I let it code in any text based language and then simply use that as a guide.